Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory are testing a virtually omniscient computer system called Force Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment. It takes a Navy battle group's radar signals and converts them into a three-dimensional picture that the admiral watches on a monitor. Instead of confusing symbols, he sees graphics of enemy and friendly planes. Using a mouse, he can manipulate the video to look at the threat from any angle. The computer recommends the targets he should attack and even keeps watch on the skies when he's away from the screen. If the computer...
...raid alert sounded at 7:09--radar had picked up the approach of the 509th Group's weather plane--and an all clear followed at 7:31, after the B-29 departed. Perhaps this apparently harmless sortie lulled the city's civil-defense monitors. In any case, just before 8:15 three more B-29s--the Enola Gay and two escorts--could be seen and then heard flying some 30,000 ft. over Hiroshima. No alarms sounded in time. The radio announcer on duty had received word that three enemy planes had been sighted, but he had momentarily paused...
...Radar-jamming planes now fly with NATO air patrols over Bosnia, and pilots take evasive maneuvers to avoid being fired upon. But to eliminate the threat, nato planes would have to attack the air-defense network, a step the alliance is not prepared to take. As long as the air defenses are allowed to operate, the nato allies should brace themselves for more pilots being shot down...
...over Bosnia, according to a Pentagon report. The report says intelligence photos revealed four hours before the plane was hit that Serb SA-6 missile battery had moved into the flyover area. Just minutes before impact, an American U-2 plane detected a brief burst of radar from the battery, revealing its position. But a command plane lacking crucial communications gear was unable to relay the message to O'Grady. Pentagon officials will present the report to Congress tomorrow...
...same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed the two Army Black Hawks and killed all 26 people on board...